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www.ahrq.gov/npsd/resources/index.html
June 01, 2019 - Safety and Quality Improvement Act, Patient Safety Rule and Technical Resources for Patient Safety Organizations … Improvement Act of 2005—HHS Guidance
https://pso.ahrq.gov/legislation/HHS-guidance
Patient Safety Organization … Quality & Disparities Reports
https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/index.html
Patient Safety Organization … This brief describes how PSOs can help health care organizations improve their patient safety culture … Patient Safety Organizations: A Summary of 2014 Profiles (PDF, 469 KB)
The PSO program administered
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/candor/module5/module5-response-disclosure-notes.pptx
August 21, 2015 - event.
4
Disclosure Communication
and Transparency2,3
Meets patient expectations of health care organizations … First, health care organizations have a commitment to meet patient expectations for safe, quality care … Patients expect their providers and health care organizations to be truthful and to provide accurate, … Quality’s Guide to Patient and Family Engagement referenced in a previous slide includes a tool to help organizations … Effective communication among staff, patients, and families is the key to ensuring that health care organizations
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www.ahrq.gov/hai/cusp/modules/spread/spread.html
December 01, 2012 - CUSP Toolkit: Spread Presentation Slides
The Spread module of the CUSP Toolkit helps an organization … This module explores how to take the work from the unit level to the organization level. … organization needing clarity about the specifics of the process." … Summary
Spread helps organizations build on processes that originated at the local level. … Organizations need to be prepared to address external and internal factors that can affect spread.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/advance-organizational-safety-strategies-slides.pdf
June 18, 2024 - Questions to Run On
How can the self-assessment tool help organizations
identify and prioritize areas … System
Equity
2018 IHI Convenes
National Steering
Committee for Patient
Safety
27 Member
Organizations … NAP)
• NAP created by the National Steering
Committee for Patient Safety included:
• 27 national organizations … Data and actions are
shared at all organization levels. … Speakers will discuss their member organizations’ survey results,
how SOPS resources were used, and
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www.ahrq.gov/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/sect4part2.html
January 01, 2020 - If your organization has already adopted an established quality improvement model, you will be able to … The next step in Lean is to do 5S organization. … Examples of Organizations Using Lean
Three Federally Qualified Health Centers applied Lean techniques … Virginia Mason Medical Center used Lean concepts to redesign their entire organization. … Organizations can also use TeamSTEPPS to "coach coaches" or "train the trainer."
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/reports/2025-annual-report/public-health.html
August 01, 2025 - which they are located, including developing partnerships with schools, workplaces, and community-based organizations … grants focused on developing linkages between primary care and the community, including public health organizations … Manufacturing: Improving Cardiovascular Care in Worksite Health Clinics (R18) PI: Meghan McHugh Organization … Utilization, and Reduce the Burden of Treatment for High-Need, High-Cost Patients (R01) PI: Sharon Hewner Organization … Systems to Adapt and Pilot Family-Centered Primary Care Interventions (K08) PI: Jamie Peterson Organization
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/cahps/quality-improvement/improvement-guide/4-approach-qi-process/cahps-section-4-ways-to-approach-qi-process.pdf
May 17, 2017 - The concept of microsystems in health care
organizations stems from research findings
indicating that … However, for successful
scalability, organizations should adopt a framework for spread that will work … Section 6 of this Guide presents a number of different strategies that health care
organizations can … The next step in Lean is to do 5S organization. … Organizations can also use TeamSTEPPS to “coach
coaches” or “train the trainer.”
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www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/advisorycouncil/adcouncil2.html
April 01, 2018 - engaging patients in programs and processes is through patient advisory councils. 2,3 Several health care organizations … Gaining a better understanding of the health care system, including their organization. … Becoming advocates for their organization. … Benefits for health care organizations include:
Learning what the priority concerns are for patients … , which may not be what the organization selects.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/obesity-kit/obtoolkit-tool7.html
March 01, 2014 - Poor
Average
Excellent
How patient-centered does this organization seem? … 10
Not at All
Moderate
Very
How confident would I feel sending my patients to organization—do … 6 7 8 9 10
Not at All
Moderate
Very
How prepared does this organization
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www.ahrq.gov/practiceimprovement/systemdesign/leancasestudies/lean-exhibit4.html
November 01, 2014 - Level of complexity and uncertainty in work
Low = involving a single dimension of the organization … High = activities that do not follow a consistent sequence and may involve multiple dimensions of the organization … 4
N= 9
Lean implementation focus
Targeted quality improvement
Diffusion across organization
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/patient-safety-resources/resources/advances-in-patient-safety/vol2/Nieva.pdf
January 07, 2005 - As
the intervention gains acceptance and feasibility within the organization, it
is institutionalized … can be mobilized to
extend the transfer of knowledge within their organization. … Reinvention is an important process in which the adopting
organization essentially begins to look at … The benefits of being open to change must be made evident
throughout the organization. … The change is
no longer an innovation; it is the standard for the organization.
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www.ahrq.gov/policymakers/chipra/demoeval/what-we-learned/implementation-guides/implementation-guide2/implguide2appb.html
September 01, 2014 - Management structure
Governor’s Office for Children in the Children’s Cabinet (interagency State-level organization … State Medicaid office and managed care organization.
State Medicaid office. … Provider type (selected contractor)
Local nonprofit organization (Choices, Inc.). … Managed care organization (Colorado Access operating in Wyoming as Wyoming Access).
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/action-alliance/engineering-safety-practice/healthcare-safety-competency-environmental-scan.pdf
March 27, 2025 - Organizations are
encouraged to leverage professional organizations' competency frameworks and tailor … Operationalize safety skills across the
organization. … Operationalize safety skills across the
organization. … Organizations Healthcare Delivery Organizations
Access to competencies and
implementation support … Create a platform for resources to be
available to all organization types and sizes.
2.
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/hsrguide/hsrguide.html
October 01, 2014 - It can serve as a resource for organizations with limited experience conducting health services research … Return to Contents
Organization of the Guide
This guide provides a user-friendly, step-by-step … Step 2
Fostering a Research Culture
Moving an organization toward a culture of research requires … dedicated leadership and support of other staff throughout the entire organization. … Establishing and sustaining partnerships within and outside of your organization.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/chsp/compendium/techdocrpt-appa.pdf
January 01, 2019 - OneKey Professionals providers are integrated into the Healthcare Organization Services
(HCOS), also … in OneKey Organizations. … , accountable care organizations (ACOs), and other organizations. … by organization type. … :
[Enter personal and organization information through the Preferences > Identity dialog.]
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/training-grants/hsrguide/hsrguide3.html
October 01, 2014 - Meaningful to your organization.
Figure 5. … Typically, organizations hire a new staff member or use project funding to support an existing staff … Organizations should be cognizant and plan for contingencies accordingly. … Yanagihara, Chang, and Ernst iv suggested that smaller organizations “form collaborative partnerships … Partnering organizations are likely to have different goals, priorities and cultures.
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www.ahrq.gov/ncepcr/tools/case-studies/overview.html
August 01, 2014 - Facilitator Certificate Program
North Carolina AHEC Practice Support Program Training
Host organization … of New York at Buffalo—Millard Fillmore College
North Carolina Area Health Education Center
Organization … type
Nonprofit quality improvement organization
Continuing education college
State workforce program … course instructors and 6 or 7 outside experts
Availability of training
External, but only for organizations
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www.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/health-plan/measurement-sets.html
December 01, 2022 - and Systems)
These measures have been endorsed by the National Quality Forum, a multistakeholder organization … HEDIS is managed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a private, non-profit organization … that accredits and certifies health care organizations. … Also, an NCQA-approved external survey organization must administer the CAHPS survey when it is part
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/lhs/lhs_case_studies_bsw.pdf
April 01, 2019 - As a
result, patients get higher quality, safer, more efficient care, and health delivery organizations … As more organizations look at value-based care and pursue their LHS journeys, those that do not
rethink … But adoption
lagged because the culture in most
organizations neither supported
nor prioritized this … To do so, the organization has built its culture around using data to make decisions. … Building partnerships with organizations who shared a common goal greatly accelerated the
health system
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www.ahrq.gov/gam/summaries/domain-framework/index.html
July 01, 2018 - classification of measures into domains within NQMC was based on a number of rationales:
Keep the organization … measures are used to assess the performance of individual clinicians, clinical delivery teams, delivery organizations … Figure:
The above Domain Framework Figure depicts the organization of the domains used to classify … The denominators for these measures are defined by some form of affiliation with a clinical care organization … Health Measures are applied to groups of people identified by geographic location or relationship to organizations